It’s extremely unusual to have members of the public space speak in favor of firefighters whenever there was fire disaster but that happens to be the case around Zongo Lane, Accra, where a weekend fire outbreak has rendered business errands motionless for six days running.

Even in distress, some of the affected people sung praise for personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service for handling the incident with a sense of professionalism.

The inferno undoubtedly left stakeholder authorities to order closure of nearby enterprises. Road network within affected areas closed to traffic and pocket of residents cut off the national grid.

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As a result, there are those who shared tears over lack of ordinary amenities and some, unable to attend to work. In all that, they remarked officers of the emergency response unit have since day one shown care.

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They pleaded with government to resource the agency to enable it do more in times like this.

A.D.O 1 Alex King Nartey of the public relations division of service urged the general public to remain calm since everything was under control to ensure total safety and order within the vicinity.

It had been six days of the fire disaster yet MBN TV’s crew could count not less than eight fire engines among other confiscated gadgets for fire fighting during the visit to the scene.